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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 528

A Great War and Second World War campaign group of seven awarded to Able Seaman R. W. Mursell, Royal Fleet Reserve, late Royal Navy, who saw action in the Russian Intervention

British War and Victory Medals (SS. 8793 R. W. Mursell, Ord., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, very fine or better (7)

Reginald Walter Mursell was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight on 19 June 1900 and entered the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in June 1918.

He subsequently witnessed active service in H.M.S. Iron Duke in the Allied Intervention in Russia 1919-21, including the destruction of ships and other materiel deemed to be of potential use to the Bolsheviks at Constantinople in April 1919. In the following month, Iron Duke contributed a landing party to occupy the outer forts of Smyrna and, in June 1920, she destroyed Turkish guns in the forts protecting the Bosporus on the Black Sea.

Mursell was discharged ashore as 'unsuitable' in June 1923, but nonetheless appears to have joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, from which he was mobilised in August 1939, when he joined the fleet repair ship Resource.

He departed Resource in August 1941 and was released 'Class A' in September 1945.

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